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Huge twist about the haint Warden Haddock wants most of all. I didn’t see this coming

Warden Haddock disguises threats as favors

Haddock wants to recruit Robert to hunt haints but excuses the spirit of his baby sister, who he might have killed

“I am a man of God and duty” - what a load of bs

Haddock “wasn’t satisfied with beating and hunting boys who were alive: he hunted dead ones too.”

Boone turns their souls to ash and Haddock collects them in a jar. Haddock squeezes every ounce of hurt out of these children, even in death

Boone says finding the haints at the Reformatory was part of his job

Blue warns Robert about Haddock. Says there are worse things than the Funhouse. Things Haddock does that makes you want to curl up and die

The NCAAP lawyer says Robert’s sentence makes sense to white people.

“To sentence a child to six months over a schoolyard kick is to willfully ignore that child’s humanity. To rebuke it.”

Gloria’s faith is broken. She doesn’t think that the same Jesus “who had forsaken Mama might help them get Robbie back.”

There’s so much bad. So much fear. It makes sense that Gloria thinks God has turned his back on her and everyone else suffering. She thinks all God’s love goes to the McCormacks of the world

Papa tells Gloria that he had to walk by a hanging tree every morning on his way to school and sometimes there was still a man hanging from it

Horrific

The first time Robert ever wanted to kill anyone, even thinks it would be worth his own life, too

“If Robert were a conjurer, Haddock would be dead already. The entire shed would be burning, even if he were still inside to burn with it.”